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Nature inspired P.J. Kavanagh – but so did ghosts, dreams, grief and God

A review of New Selected Poems by P.J. Kavanagh, with a foreword by Derek Mahon. The poet who imagined heaven as ‘big rooms filled with laughing’

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  • New Selected Poems

    P.J. Kavanagh, with a foreword by Derek Mahon

    Carcanet, pp. 159

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